Shaun White wins the gold medal in half-pipe, bringing the total number of gold medals the US has won in Winter Olympic history to 100. His old nickname might come up if they ask who got the 100th gold--The Flying Tomato. I doubt other athletes winning gold will show up unless they have the staying power White has had (think Chloe Kim in 8-12 years).

The small island nation of Tonga’s parliament is supposed to come into session on March 1, but lawmakers are frantically scrambling to find a new home after the century-old parliament building was reduce to rubble earlier this week. Cyclone Gita roared ashore with 145-mph winds and made a direct hit on Nukuʻalofa, the island’s capital on Monday night local time.

Seventeen-year-old Vincent Zhou, the youngest American competing in any event at these Winter Olympics, pulled off a move tonight that no one at the Games had ever landed cleanly before: the quad lutz. It’s the most difficult move currently recognized as achievable...

I could see LL asking for both the triple axel from earlier and this quad lutz in a single question. J! wouldn't be that cruel.

Austin Dillon wins the Daytona 500. He is the grandson of Richard Childress, owner of Richard Childress Racing, whose team Dale Earnhardt raced for.
Runner-up Darrell Wallace, Jr. is the first African-American to finish the Daytona 500 on the lead lap.

Jamaica sent its first women's bobsled team to the Winter Olympics this year. When the team's coach, Sandra Kiriasis, quit and threatened to take the team's bobsled with her, which brand of beer offered on Twitter to pay for a new sleigh?

Jamaica sent its first bobsled team to the Winter Olympics this year. When the team's coach, Sandra Kiriasis, quit and threatened to take the team's bobsled with her, which brand of beer offered on Twitter to pay for a new sleigh?

Well, as a Canadian and an anthematologist for over 25 years, you can guess I have thoughts on it.

As a Canadian, and a liberal Canadian, I applaud the move. However, speaking as someone who has studied anthems for many many years now, I actually have different thoughts. You can hear me give them when I was interviewed on the CBC back in 2010 when the Harper government first talked about changing the anthem, but the tl;dl version is that, while it's nice, the anthem isn't the government's to change, it's the people's. That's who it belongs to. If there was a big movement to change it to be gender inclusive, like there was in Austria, it should be changed. But in Canada, a small group of people really want it changed, a small group of people really want to keep it the same, and most people don't really care and will probably sing the old words any for many years to come out of stubbornness, forgetfulness, or laziness. I wish there was a larger group of people saying the anthem should be changed, so that the change can get more credence behind it, but there isn't.

"Jeopardy! is two parts luck and one part luck" - Me

"The way to win on Jeopardy is to be a rabidly curious, information-omnivorous person your entire life." - Ken Jennings

Black Panther, the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, took in more than $200 million in North America this past weekend--a record for a February release and for a film directed by an African American (Ryan Coogler). Coogler is the first African-American director of an MCU film. Earlier, he directed Creed, in which Michael B. Jordan (who plays N'Jadaka/Erik "Killmonger" Stevens in Black Panther) starred as Apollo Creed's son Adonis Johnson.

Speaking of African-American directors, Ava DuVernay's A Wrinkle in Time will be released March 9. The book version has come up in Jeopardy.

Also in pop culture, the Winter Olympics have focused attention on K-Pop, the highly-choreographed popular music from South Korea.

Louisville becomes the first NCAA Division I men's basketball team to vacate a national title after the NCAA denies Louisville's appeal over the ruling in the escort scandal. Along with the 2013 National Title, Louisville will also be required to vacate a 2012 Final Four run, 138 wins (regular season and post season combined), and millions of dollars in revenue.

Jamaica sent its first bobsled team to the Winter Olympics this year. When the team's coach, Sandra Kiriasis, quit and threatened to take the team's bobsled with her, which brand of beer offered on Twitter to pay for a new sleigh?

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It was Jamaica's first women's bobsled team (the men's team debuted in 1988). Also participating its first Winter Olympics ever is Nigeria, which qualified athletes in women's bobsled and women's skeleton.